and I have allium allergy.
Allium allergy is when you are allergic to onion, garlic, leeks, chives, ramps, shallot, and scallion. I started my food blog From Dora’s Kitchen to raise awareness about allium allergy, and to share delicious allium-free recipes so you don’t need to worry about what’s for dinner!
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Cooking without onion, garlic, and other alliums is easier than you think and the result is a perfect meal full of flavors.
Soup recipes without onion and without garlic will keep you warm during cold winter days and they are the perfect flu remedy.
Yes, you can be allergic to onions. Onion allergy has three different variants, and symptoms can range from mild ones to severe and even life-threatening (anaphylaxis).
Read more about onion allergy in my Surviving onion allergy guide.
Are you allergic or intolerant to onion, garlic or other alliums? Learn more about this condition here
Allium allergy is a reaction from the immune system when it comes into contact with alliums (onion, garlic, shallot, chives, scallion, ramps, and leeks). The immune system thinks that unharmful allium substances are harmful to our body, and it starts attacking them. This can lead from mild to severe symptoms.
Symptoms can vary from mild ones to severe ones, and even life-threatening – anaphylaxis. Some of the symptoms are nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, headache, brain fog, itching, rash, swelling of the face, lips, or throat, trouble breathing, stomach pain, coughing or wheezing, tingling sensation in the mouth, fainting or dizziness, and anaphylaxis.
Allium intolerance is a reaction from our GI system when alliums are ingested. Unlike in the allergy, the immune system is not involved. With intolerance, our body has trouble breaking down certain food compounds, and it causes digestive issues.
Allergy is a response from the immune system. They always appear because of the immune system. Food intolerance is being unable to process and digest specific foods. Intolerance is connected with the digestive system, not with the immune system.
However, food intolerance and food allergy sometimes have the same symptoms. Even though food intolerance usually is not a life-threatening condition, it should be taken seriously.
Yes, you can suddenly get a food allergy as an adult, and it is called an adult-onset allergy. Without a doubt, allergies can occur at any age.
Adult-onset allergy can occur because of family history, changes in the immune system, or exposure to a new allergen in the environment.
If you have an allium allergy then you should skip the following ingredients: onion, garlic, leeks, ramps, scallion, and shallot.
You should skip alliums if you have:
It is absolutely possible to cook every meal without using onion, and garlic in it.
Cooking without onion and garlic is giving you room to be more creative about how to season food with herbs, what combination of herbs works the best, and what combination of vegetables works the best.
When you skip alliums from a meal you can feel the taste of the other ingredients much more intense.
